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MIXING MASTERCLASS WITH ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

This issue, it’s time to step inside the world’s most iconic studios for a behind-the-scenes, all-access experience like no other!

To kick off, we’ll take you on an all-access tour and history lesson of their five main studios – from the orchestral grandeur of Studio One; and the much-documented Fab-Four-fave, Studio Two; through to their brand new studio rooms.

After that, you’ll head into The Front Room studio for an attended session with Abbey Road in-house engineer Gordon Davidson (The Hobbit, Spectre, Iron Man). Watch over his shoulder in an exclusive 90-minute video session, and see how he uses both high-end hardware and software processing to elevate a track from rough demo to polished masterpiece. Plus, you get the entire video, plus ‘before’ and ‘after’ stems, only with this issue of CM!

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STUDIO PIONEERS

Following our trip to Abbey Road Studios, we’ll take a look at the studio techniques pioneered the world’s most legendary band. Discover how The Beatles’ creative relationship with their producer George Martin redefined how we work in the studio… then find out how to implement these techniques using modern music software!

Over eight packed pages, we’ll explore The Beatles and George Martin’s studio approaches to show you how to…

Create dense arrangements with only limited track counts

Utilise pitch and varispeed recording techniques

Replicate manual tape-style flanging, phasing, chorusing and ADT

Use Leslie speaker effects on vocals

PRODUCER MASTERCLASS – OC & VERDE

Since 2014, Ben O’Connor and Jon Verde have been racking up releases on some of techno and house’s finest labels, including Knee Deep in Sound, Suara, Bedrock and Glasgow Underground. In our huge eight-page feature and 90-minute video, we catch up with them in their Lancashire studio to find out how they made their monstrous festival banger Solstice, which was released earlier this year on Steve Lawler’s VIVa Music.

Check out the first half of the video below, and get access to the full vid only in issue 245 of Computer Music!

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1,342 SAMPLES WITH THIS ISSUE

Buy issue 245 of CM and fill your samples folder with three whopping packs of track-ready sounds! You get: